Search This Blog

Kogi Introduces Daily Payment For Civil Servants

State government has introduced electronic attendance register to further checkmate the activities of the civil servants.

The
state civil servants are already lamenting over the new clocking
system, which they said would further impoverish them with the recent
introduction of 50% salaries payment.

The new system which
workers have to clock in between 7.30 and 8am for resumption, 12pm for
break and 4pm for closure, on every working day, is being used to
determine how many days and hours an individual worker spent in a month
for the purpose of calculating the salary.

DAILY POST further
learnt that the machines, which have the imputed workers’ biodata, were
installed in all the ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) which
are to be controlled from the office of the Accountant General of the
state for the purpose of computing salaries on individual basis.

Kogi State government is the first state in the country to introduce clocking time regulations for its workers.

According
to some civil servants who spoke on anonymity, the government has
subtly commenced downsizing and technically introduced salary reduction.

“Come
to think of it, for instance, a PRO deployed to ministry of environment
and whose parent ministry is Ministry of Information will have to go to
the ministry three times a day and still have to contend with his work
at the ministry of environment, with enormous costs, as the two ministry
are located far from each other.

“Also, those who are on
essential services would have to stop whatever they are doing to rush to
the ministry to clock in three times per day. Is the new system not
meant to sack workers and also to reduce salaries, since workers are
going to be paid on number of clockings?

“Why are governor Alhaji
Yahaya Bello’s policies tailored towards punishing workers? This
clocking system to us have not been adopted by any government in
Nigeria, and even Construction Companies only used it for the purpose of
computing over time rates”, ‎the angry worker lamented.

Acting
President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has assured the nation that President
Muhammadu Buhari is hale and hearty and would return home as soon as he
completes the necessary tests recommended by his doctors in the United
Kingdom.

Prof. Osinbajo gave the assurance on Monday when State
House correspondents approached him for a chat shortly after his
telephone conversation with the president.